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Here's my story.

My store is over 40 years old. Many of the machines are jist as old. My open dairy case was struggling to keep up with the heat we had on May last year. We had a few days that hit 90's may and when my dairy case was in it's defrost cycle, the State health dept stopped by.

Stuck his thermometer in my yogurt and such. Off by 5°. Made me throw away over $2000 pf my dairy products and wrote me up for $1000. What ever.

They come back in June. I blow up and ask how this is allowed to go on everyday...
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...and it's not a health issue.

He leaves with out checking anything.

A few customers saw what was happening and without my knowledge, starts a GoFundMe page.
A few weeks go by and one of my regular customer asks me what Im going to do with the money they raised for me. "Excuse me? What money?"

Apparently, a local blogging site caught wind of the GFM page and wrote a blog. Within weeks the fund was well above $12,000. :eek:.
Being a proud guy, I wanted to return it. But my accountant and my wife said I should thank everyone and put the funds to good use.

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Thats my "new" to me refurbished dairy case coming in to my store in July. Spent the GFM funds and a little over $2000 out of my pocket to set it up.

I get teary eyes everytime I walk by that open case now.

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Bucha dang Upper West Side Liberals...some of the best people I know. ?
 
DarthBaiter said:
Here's my story.

My store is over 40 years old. Many of the machines are jist as old. My open dairy case was struggling to keep up with the heat we had on May last year. We had a few days that hit 90's may and when my dairy case was in it's defrost cycle, the State health dept stopped by.

Stuck his thermometer in my yogurt and such. Off by 5°. Made me throw away over $2000 pf my dairy products and wrote me up for $1000. What ever.

They come back in June. I blow up and ask how this is allowed to go on everyday...
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...and it's not a health issue.

He leaves with out checking anything.

A few customers saw what was happening and without my knowledge, starts a GoFundMe page.
A few weeks go by and one of my regular customer asks me what Im going to do with the money they raised for me. "Excuse me? What money?"

Apparently, a local blogging site caught wind of the GFM page and wrote a blog. Within weeks the fund was well above $12,000. :eek:.
Being a proud guy, I wanted to return it. But my accountant and my wife said I should thank everyone and put the funds to good use.

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Thats my "new" to me refurbished dairy case coming in to my store in July. Spent the GFM funds and a little over $2000 out of my pocket to set it up.

I get teary eyes everytime I walk by that open case now.

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Bucha dang Upper West Side Liberals...some of the best people I know. ?
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Jewish folks too, Religious ya know... cellfish...
 
DarthBaiter said:
Yep, many Jewish folks here. ?


If any of youse is in the neighborhood, stop by ask for me and the drinks are on me. ;)
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hope your case is working that day...i like me beer COLD :)not that IPA young stuff...a pilsner for me

Glad you got help with that case...you deserve it and I'm sure you help others...big expenses like that take a big whack out of the profits.
 
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Fundraiser for Slain Marine Expecting First Child Collects Over $600,000 in Six Days

Rylee McCollum, 20, was one of the 13 service members killed in the Afghanistan airport attack on Aug. 26
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At the time of his death, McCollum was reportedly three weeks away from welcoming his first child with his wife, Jiennah. A GoFundMe created by Into The Breach Supply Co., a clothing company, had raised more than $600,000 as of Friday to cover the future education of McCollum's child — bringing in over 100 times its $5,000 goal.

"This is a fund specifically dedicated to the education and upbringing of Marine Rylee McCollum's child who is expected for September. His sacrifice at HKIA [the airport] to protect the lives of those who cannot themselves will not be forgotten," the fundraiser description reads. "Anything you can provide to aid them would be appreciated more than we can express. Bless."
 
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Construction workers helped a Florida teen say goodbye to her dying mom from a hospital roof

Just one visitor was allowed in the room while Michelle Arbelaez was dying of COVID-19. Her 17 year-old-daughter said goodbye from a window.
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  • Construction workers helped a Florida teen say goodbye to her mom who was dying of COVID-19 in the hospital.
  • Workers helped Jordyn Alvarez up to the hospital roof so she could see her mom from outside the window.
  • "My last words to my mom were through a FaceTime call, and I hope that no child has to go through that," the 17-year-old told First Coast News.

The day before her mother died, Arbelaez waited outside the hospital for an hour while her father was inside the hospital visiting her. Just one person was allowed in the hospital room at a time, First Coast News reported.


"Then I looked up and there were construction workers," Jayden told the outlet. "I told them the situation. I said, 'My mom was going to die. Is there any way that I can get to that window?'"

The construction workers gave her safety gear, including a hard hat, and led her up to the roof of the building so she could reach her mother's hospital room window, according to First Coast News.

"I'm visiting with my wife, playing worship music, praying for her, stroking her hair, telling her I love her," Jayden's father, Mitch Arbelaez, told the outlet. "And I hear a knock on the window and there's Jayden in a hard hat, a safety vest, rubber boots."

The family prayed together over the phone, they told the outlet.

"It was sad that I couldn't be there to hold her hand in that last day, those last hours, but at least being able to, you know, look in the window and see her and see my dad, I was very grateful to those construction workers," Jayden said, according to First Coast News.
 
this man's a hero.......................

Taxi Driver suspects his passenger is carrying a bomb. He asked to let off at a Women's Hospital. As he gets to the hospital the driver locks the taxi's doors while he & the suspected bomber are still in the taxi & the bomb goes off killing the bomber. Driver survives with injures.

The whole thing was captured on CCTV footage & you can see the driver lurch himself out of the taxi after the explosion. It's a miricle the driver escaped alive.

It was estimated that there were 2,000 people in the hospital at the time.



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CCTV footage shows Remembrance Sunday blast outside Liverpool hospital

The moment a taxi exploded outside Liverpool Women's Hospital was captured on CCTV.
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Baby’s neglected headstone from 1800s is lovingly restored by teacher in emotional TikTok: ‘[Her] Momma [was] with me’

"I pray someone [will] clean my son's stone 100 years from now..."
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Baby’s neglected headstone from 1800s is lovingly restored by teacher in emotional TikTok: ‘[Her] Momma [was] with me’​


Cassie Morris
Thu, May 12, 2022, 4:04 PM


A history teacher painstakingly restored the neglected Victorian-era headstone of a 1-year-old baby girl — and TikTok is praising her heartfelt work.

Historian and storyteller Meg Barnes (@megbarnes22) gained over 4.3 million views, 413,000 likes and 2,500 comments when she uploaded the touching restoration to her account.

While families often visit their loved ones’ final resting places as a way to heal — like this dad and toddler who went viral when they filmed their tear-jerking visit to their wife and mom’s grave — as time passes, many graves are lost to the echoes of time.

But thanks to kind souls like Meg, these gravestones and the lives they represent are given the love and attention they deserve.

But Meg doesn’t just clean the neglected headstones; she also researches the individual and their families, then shares their stories on TikTok — thus honoring them and helping to keep their memories alive, even hundreds of years after their passing.

In the case of this tiny headstone, located in Cole Hill Cemetery in North Brookfield, N.Y., Meg discovered that little Eva Stevens died on May 8, 1859.

Because she was born between census years, baby Eva’s birth was never documented nationally, nor was her death ever announced. “Her headstone was the only evidence I could find that she existed,” explained Meg.

But after further research, Meg learned that Eva’s parents were Orlando and Rose Stevens, who went on to have two other children. After dying in their 70s, the couple was buried in a cemetery on the other side of town, leaving baby Eva alone in Cole Hill. (Meg speculates this could be because the town stopped using Cole Hill Cemetery by the time Orlando and Rose died.)

Once she had unearthed the gravestone, which had been swallowed up by grass and dirt over the years, Meg noticed the scroll-shaped stone was topped with a broken rosebud — a Victorian-era symbol that represented a life cut short.

According to Meg, she always obtains permission to clean and restore gravestones from the cemetery keepers or landowners, and she is very particular about her cleaning materials, using ones that will not harm the stones or the wildlife around them.

‘You are a wonderful person for what you do’
TikTokers were immensely moved by Meg’s caring restoration — especially parents who had lost babies of their own.

“As a mum who lost my 5 week old daughter, I hope in many years to come, when I’m long, long gone, someone as special as you does this for her. My Kacey ❤️,” one parent shared.

“The cemetery that has our daughter… I bring roses to all the old baby graves. I cry for mine and all the babies there. I know many of the babies,” another parent wrote.

“What you are doing is wonderful. I pray someone [will] clean my son’s stone 100 years from now,” commented another parent.

To these comments, Meg replied, “I like to think their mommas are with me when I clean the little ones’ stones. ?”

Many TikTokers took the time to thank Meg for her work and compassion.

“I’m always so touched by the work you do,” one user wrote.

“I love how you talk about each person. You [make] sure they’re celebrated,” another user commented.

“Thank you for doing what you do and sharing with us,” replied another user.

“You are a wonderful person for what you do,” commented another.

For those inspired to follow in Meg’s footsteps and start cleaning headstones in their own local cemeteries, Meg has put together a very helpful how-to video that explains her process.

After cleaning baby Eva’s headstone, Meg returned six months later to see how it had brightened — revealing a stunningly restored stone that hardly looks 163 years old.

(Video at the below link)

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Bravo!!

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The Daily Beast

The Texan Working Overtime to Customize 19 Little Caskets​


Michael Daly
Fri, May 27, 2022, 4:49 AM

The nation’s only manufacturer of children’s coffins received 19 urgent orders in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

“When we had Sandy Hook, that was another crazy day,” Mike Mims, CEO of Cherokee Caskets of Georgia, told The Daily Beast. “So we’re tired. We’re tired of having doing these things.”

The Cherokee factory in Griffin, Georgia, ran full-tilt for 20 straight hours from Wednesday into Thursday. One difference between the two school massacres was that the 20 coffins after Sandy Hook in 2012 went to individual funeral directors in Connecticut. The funeral directors in Uvalde decided that it should all go through a single casket distributor and customizer, Trey Ganem of SoulShine Industries in Edna, Texas.

Ganem had managed to handle most of the coffins for the 26 killed in the Sutherlands Spring church mass shooting in 2017. He was now asked to furnish caskets for the 21 who died at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, including the two teachers.

“The funeral directors know who I am, and they said, ‘If anybody can do it, you can. Would you help out in Uvalde?’” Ganem told The Daily Beast. “I said, ‘100 percent.’”

Ganem added that he would cover the cost of the coffins, around $3,400 each. And he would not charge for any customizing.


The 19 child-size coffins were scheduled to arrive at SoulShine at 2 a.m. Friday.

“We already have the adult [coffins],” Ganem told The Daily Beast as he returned from buying extra paint.

Ganem began consulting with the Uvalde families on Wednesday at the Civic Center and on Thursday at their homes. He sought to determine what individual touches they might want.

“I’ll sit down with them and they tell me all the stories about their loved one—if they love ponies, if they love butterflies or arts or softball,” Ganem told The Daily Beast. “And when they’re telling me these things about their loved one, I can see them light up on very specific things.”

He will incorporate it all into jumbo computer-generated images.

“Without calling it a sticker, it is in effect a huge sticker,” Ganem said. “They call them wraps instead of stickers now, but it’s a giant one. It can go around corners, you can heat it, cut it, shape it the way you want.”

The family of one Uvalde victim told Ganem that their murdered daughter loved to hike.

“They sent us pictures of her hiking and in the mountains,” he reported. “And we’re actually putting them in with the wrap and we’ll incorporate the colors on the exterior to go with that. So it’ll look like a giant photo across the top of the casket. And it’s gonna be beautiful.”

Ganem wanted only to handle adults when he first met Mims of Cherokee at a trade show more than a decade ago. Mims had encountered others in the industry who asked him why he stayed in the child-casket business when sales had sharply declined along with child mortality as a result improved health care, nutrition, and highway safety. But Ganem’s feelings about Mims’ niche had nothing to do with money.

“He saw that I did children’s caskets and he says, ‘Oh, I just can’t do children,’” Mims recalled.

Ganem later told The Daily Beast, “Kids are hard for me. And that’s why I was like, ‘I don’t want to do that.’”

They just hugged me and said, ‘You don’t know what you’ve done for us just doing this because now I see my little karate guy up there and he loved Ninja Turtles.’”

Ganem had a new mission.

“I’m like, ‘I don’t want any kid to be left without a custom casket,’” he recalled.

He worked on many more child caskets and found he had a gift for divining exactly what the family wanted.

“And you can just kind of visualize it as they’re talking to you,’’ he said.

“I am the casket whisperer.”

As of Thursday, he had spoken with 10 of the Uvalde families.

“The other ones have not been to the funeral homes yet,” he said. “They are starting to come in today and mind you, a lot of ’em haven’t received their kids back. [The kids] are at the medical examiner office. But some already know who I am and have already contacted me personally.”

He reported that none of the families he had conferred with have declined his offer to customize the coffin.

“I told them if they wanted a plain casket, they can,” he reported. “But, I’m probably pretty sure that we’re not gonna have any plain caskets.”

He said that includes the family of at least one of the teachers, whose coffin is among the six he has to deliver this weekend, with the other 15 due next week. His crew of five workers was poised to start working the minute the coffins arrived from Cherokee. His 25-year-old son, Billy, will apply the wraps on one and go on to the next.

“Thank God I have a heated paint booth,” Ganem said. “In 30 minutes, the paint’s dry. We’ll be putting two at a time in there.”

He added, “We can do it. We just have to put our crunch time together.”

He reported that numerous people have volunteered to help.

“They said, ‘We don’t have a lot of money, but we will come sand, we will help deliver,’” he reported.

He then said, “It warms my heart to know that there’s still great people in this country, in the world.”
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Including you sir.
(y)

:cry:
 
wader said:
The Daily Beast

The Texan Working Overtime to Customize 19 Little Caskets​


Michael Daly
Fri, May 27, 2022, 4:49 AM

The nation’s only manufacturer of children’s coffins received 19 urgent orders in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

“When we had Sandy Hook, that was another crazy day,” Mike Mims, CEO of Cherokee Caskets of Georgia, told The Daily Beast. “So we’re tired. We’re tired of having doing these things.”

The Cherokee factory in Griffin, Georgia, ran full-tilt for 20 straight hours from Wednesday into Thursday. One difference between the two school massacres was that the 20 coffins after Sandy Hook in 2012 went to individual funeral directors in Connecticut. The funeral directors in Uvalde decided that it should all go through a single casket distributor and customizer, Trey Ganem of SoulShine Industries in Edna, Texas.

Ganem had managed to handle most of the coffins for the 26 killed in the Sutherlands Spring church mass shooting in 2017. He was now asked to furnish caskets for the 21 who died at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, including the two teachers.

“The funeral directors know who I am, and they said, ‘If anybody can do it, you can. Would you help out in Uvalde?’” Ganem told The Daily Beast. “I said, ‘100 percent.’”

Ganem added that he would cover the cost of the coffins, around $3,400 each. And he would not charge for any customizing.


The 19 child-size coffins were scheduled to arrive at SoulShine at 2 a.m. Friday.

“We already have the adult [coffins],” Ganem told The Daily Beast as he returned from buying extra paint.

Ganem began consulting with the Uvalde families on Wednesday at the Civic Center and on Thursday at their homes. He sought to determine what individual touches they might want.

“I’ll sit down with them and they tell me all the stories about their loved one—if they love ponies, if they love butterflies or arts or softball,” Ganem told The Daily Beast. “And when they’re telling me these things about their loved one, I can see them light up on very specific things.”

He will incorporate it all into jumbo computer-generated images.

“Without calling it a sticker, it is in effect a huge sticker,” Ganem said. “They call them wraps instead of stickers now, but it’s a giant one. It can go around corners, you can heat it, cut it, shape it the way you want.”

The family of one Uvalde victim told Ganem that their murdered daughter loved to hike.

“They sent us pictures of her hiking and in the mountains,” he reported. “And we’re actually putting them in with the wrap and we’ll incorporate the colors on the exterior to go with that. So it’ll look like a giant photo across the top of the casket. And it’s gonna be beautiful.”

Ganem wanted only to handle adults when he first met Mims of Cherokee at a trade show more than a decade ago. Mims had encountered others in the industry who asked him why he stayed in the child-casket business when sales had sharply declined along with child mortality as a result improved health care, nutrition, and highway safety. But Ganem’s feelings about Mims’ niche had nothing to do with money.

“He saw that I did children’s caskets and he says, ‘Oh, I just can’t do children,’” Mims recalled.

Ganem later told The Daily Beast, “Kids are hard for me. And that’s why I was like, ‘I don’t want to do that.’”

They just hugged me and said, ‘You don’t know what you’ve done for us just doing this because now I see my little karate guy up there and he loved Ninja Turtles.’”

Ganem had a new mission.

“I’m like, ‘I don’t want any kid to be left without a custom casket,’” he recalled.

He worked on many more child caskets and found he had a gift for divining exactly what the family wanted.

“And you can just kind of visualize it as they’re talking to you,’’ he said.

“I am the casket whisperer.”

As of Thursday, he had spoken with 10 of the Uvalde families.

“The other ones have not been to the funeral homes yet,” he said. “They are starting to come in today and mind you, a lot of ’em haven’t received their kids back. [The kids] are at the medical examiner office. But some already know who I am and have already contacted me personally.”

He reported that none of the families he had conferred with have declined his offer to customize the coffin.

“I told them if they wanted a plain casket, they can,” he reported. “But, I’m probably pretty sure that we’re not gonna have any plain caskets.”

He said that includes the family of at least one of the teachers, whose coffin is among the six he has to deliver this weekend, with the other 15 due next week. His crew of five workers was poised to start working the minute the coffins arrived from Cherokee. His 25-year-old son, Billy, will apply the wraps on one and go on to the next.

“Thank God I have a heated paint booth,” Ganem said. “In 30 minutes, the paint’s dry. We’ll be putting two at a time in there.”

He added, “We can do it. We just have to put our crunch time together.”

He reported that numerous people have volunteered to help.

“They said, ‘We don’t have a lot of money, but we will come sand, we will help deliver,’” he reported.

He then said, “It warms my heart to know that there’s still great people in this country, in the world.”
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Including you sir.
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I can’t read about this anymore. :cry:
 

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